Today, Village Capital, in partnership with Blue Sky Network, Radicle Capital, Reily Foods, Owsley Brown Charitable Foundation, and Sustainable America, is excited to launch its third annual agriculture program based in Louisville. This three-month program will bring together a diverse group of early stage entrepreneurs working in each part of the agriculture supply chain and food system to solve major agricultural problems. Village Capital is proud to run the first agriculture-specific accelerator in the United States.
Village Capital Launches 3rd Annual Agriculture Program
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Announcing VilCap Communities
Dear friends of Village Capital,
Today, we’re excited to announce VilCap Communities, a new initiative to expand access to opportunity for entrepreneurs around the world.
Over the last six years, Village Capital has supported more than 500 top entrepreneurs worldwide, enabling $3 million of investment in more than 60 seed-stage firms through a unique peer review model—entrepreneurs themselves make investment decisions. See here for an article I wrote in MIT Innovations describing Village Capital’s peer-selected investment model.
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The World is Flat, Aspirationally
Square is out; circular is in.
This is what I heard on a visit to Kenya last month from last mile distributor Living Goods when I asked about their bed net sales. In the market for bed nets, which keep malaria-carrying mosquitos away from children in developing countries, fashion is now just as important as functionality.
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Giving Thanks
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the hectic day to day hustle here at Village Capital. We don’t always have time to sit back and reflect on the incredible progress we have made with the help of the people who mentor, support, and encourage us every day.
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Announcing the Launch of VilCap Communities: Democratizing Entrepreneurship Across the US
The American Dream is firmly rooted across the entire United States, not just a few select cities.
Ford Motor Company began as a small but ambitious car manufacturer in Detroit; Nike and Under Armour launched in Portland and Baltimore, respectively; and Microsoft had its start in Albuquerque. While 75% of venture capital goes to three states, transformative companies launch all across America.
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$100,000 Awarded to Shiksha Finance and Catalyst Labs for FinTech Business Solutions in India
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$100,000 Awarded to Shiksha Finance and Catalyst Labs for FinTech Business Solutions in India
Selected by peers as top Indian ventures that address challenges in the FinTech sector
(Mumbai, India) – Two FinTech startups, Shiksha Finance and Catalyst Labs, were selected by their peers in December to receive $50,000 each in investment from Village Capital and co-investment partner Asha Impact. The selection marks the end of a three-month accelerator program, VilCap FinTech India 2015, run by Village Capital in partnership with the DBS Foundation and Paypal.
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Top 11 Mexican Startups Serving the Unbanked, Underbanked, and SMEs
Last November, the Village Capital (VilCap) team united 20 thought leaders to identify the key financial inclusion challenges in Mexico. Some of the primary challenges that emerged:
Antiquated credit scoring methods,
Inability to identify users, and
Sub-par infrastructure preventing access to both online and brick-and-mortar financial institutions.
With support from our core program sponsors PayPal and BlackRock and our local partner Crédito Real, we spent the last three months boiling the financial technology ocean to identify the top 11 early-stage ventures in Mexico working to improve access to finance for the unbanked, underbanked, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
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